Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Copley-"The Bellamy Trial". A dramatization of a book which was supposed to be the great murder mystery of last year. The book was so much dialogue that making a play of it must have been easy; i. e. if you read the book there are better things...
...copy of the "Traditions" booklet has been placed in the registration envelope of every Freshman. It is our sincere hope that the booklet will not be cast aside as just another piece of campaign literature with which the Freshman is flooded, but that it will be read carefully during the next few days before the rush of College begins and then be preserved for future...
...catch you in error. You say (TIME, Sept. 10) that New York hoodlums broke the beak of a shoebill heron. Newspapers that I have read called it a shoebill stork...
...96th annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Glasgow last week, was a grand concourse of ideas on chemistry, physics, psychology, mathematics, geology. So specialized and abstruse were most of the papers read in 13 sectional meetings that the 3,000 scientists attending (from all the continents) were eager to get the Glasgow newspapers for popularized reports of what was happening in fields other than their own. However there was a strong thread of thought running through all the discussions: the application of science in industry...
Variable Sex. Twenty-six women read papers at Glasgow; 14 were botanists. One of the botanists, Professor Dame Helen Charlotte Isabella Gwynne-Vaughan of the University of London, brought her audience to sharp attention by announcing discovery of four different sexes in toadstools. Their differences are so slight that they can be called only plus or minus. Each type can breed with the other three and, under some circumstances, with its own kind. The differences seem to result from the differences in food substances absorbed by the parent fungi. The toadstool sexes are variable. If such is true of fungi...